National Politics
From the New York Times…Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, whose tenure has been marred by controversy and accusations of perjury before Congress, has resigned. A senior administration official said he would announce the decision later this morning in Washington.
According to Newsweek: In September 2006, during a famous encounter with Fox News anchor Wallace, Clinton erupted in anger and waived his finger when asked about whether his administration had done enough to get bin Laden. “What did I do? What did I do?” Clinton said at one point. “I worked hard to try to…
I suspect this news arriving via the Wall Street Journal might generate some buzz in political circles (h/t Drudge)…Karl Rove, President Bush’s longtime political adviser, is resigning as White House deputy chief of staff effective Aug. 31, and returning to Texas, marking a turning point for the Bush presidency.
The spreading of the popular vote notion from presidential politics to senatorial, here on Anchor Rising, has brought out the shadow of a key principle that is in danger of being forgotten in our coastal parochialism. The U.S. Senate is constructed as it is partly to capitalize on the diversity of a (small-r) republican nation.…
Question for fans of electing the President by popular vote: What do you think of Professor Larry Sabato’s proposal for “reforming” the Senate (via Joseph Knippenberg of the Ashbrook Center)…Because each state, regardless of population, elects two of the 100 senators, just 17 percent of the nation’s population elects a majority of the Senate. Sabato…
I’m not a dead-ender on Iraq, but I do think we’ve got to give the new–albeit too-long in coming–strategy time to work. I suspect readers will just breeze on past this post as many, probably most, already have their minds made up. To them, we are frozen in time: the situation in Iraq will always…
Ian Donnis over at N4N invokes the Supreme Court “giving” the election to George W. Bush in 2000 as a lead-in to the National Popular Vote movement. Both Andrew and I have posted about this before. Here’s a baseball analogy just for Ian, via a Bruce Bartlett piece from 2000: It will be as if…
Of all the ink spilled (or pixels populated) over the Libby pardon, perhaps Ben Stein’s take sums it up best (h/t). Nuff said.
Oddly, regarding the President’s visit to Newport tomorrow, I find myself scowling not unlike a Democrat (Bushitler-types excluded). I’m relieved that I’ll likely be working on the other side of town, but except for that consideration, I’ll be just as happy to have him come and go, and I find that I mean from the…
Is it me, or is there something similar in the eyes of the following two pictures (both from the ad-cycling page to which Marc links)? The picture at right is, of course, from the new neo-Noah film Evan Almighty, and given Rudy’s famous social liberalism (as well as my selective cropping), I can’t help but…